Russia: February 8, 2004

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Russia's air defense forces reported that their radars had detected 500,000 aircraft in 2003, 80,000 of them foreign. Most of this was legitimate commercial air traffic. But a thousand foreign aircraft were detected near Russias borders. Most of these were reconnaissance aircraft.

 

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